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Walker Evans
1903 Stati Uniti - 1975 Stati Uniti
Portrait of Walker Evans. © Edwin Locke
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Introduction
His work, rigorous, frontal, and stripped of any romantic affectation, redefined the way the United States looks at itself. If the pictorialist photography that preceded him sought spiritual elevation through artifice and softness, Walker Evans imposed a sharp, analytical, and lucidly objective vision, elevating vernacular architecture, faces etched by labor, and the detritus of industrial civilization to the status of monumental icons.
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